After a successful pilot season, Amazon Studios has officially
given The Tick, Jean-Claude Van Johnson, and I Love Dick their marching orders
with all three original series being greenlighted by the studio and set to
premiere in 2017 for Amazon Prime members across all available territories.
"These pilots
were vast in scope, disruptive in tone, challenging in story and sometimes even
funny," said Amazon's Head of Half-Hour Series Joe Lewis. "It’s
rewarding to see customers embrace them in such a huge way. We can’t wait to
premiere these series next year on Prime Video."
In a
world where superheroes have been real for decades, an underdog accountant with
zero powers comes to realize his city is owned by a global super villain
long-thought dead. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in
league with a strange blue superhero.
The
pilot for The Tick starred
Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians
of the Galaxy), Griffin Newman (Vinyl), Jackie
Earle Haley (Watchmen),
Valorie Curry (House of Lies), Yara
Martinez (Jane the Virgin) and
Brendan Hines (Scorpion).
The Tick is executive produced by
Ben Edlund (Supernatural), Barry Josephson (Bones) and Barry Sonnenfeld (A
Series of Unfortunate Events), directed by Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight), and
written by Edlund. The Tick is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television.
If you need to eliminate a political rival, debilitate a multinational corporation, or overthrow an
entire government—and you need it done with the utmost secrecy—there’s only one
person to turn to: one of the most internationally recognizable movie stars in
the history of film. Jean-Claude Van Johnson stars Jean-Claude Van Damme (JCVD) playing
"Jean-Claude Van Johnson," a global martial arts and film
sensation…and, operating under the simple alias of "Johnson," the
most dangerous undercover private contractor in the world. Lucky for the
world’s bad guys, he’s been retired for years…unlucky for them, a chance
encounter with a lost love is about to bring him back to the game…and this
time, he’ll be deadlier than ever. Probably.
The pilot for Jean-Claude Van Johnson starred Van
Damme along with Kat Foster (Your
Family or Mine), Moises Arias (The
Middle), and Phylicia Rashad (Creed). The show is executive produced
by Peter Atencio (Key and
Peele), Ridley Scott (The
Good Wife), David W. Zucker (The
Man in the High Castle) and Van Damme.
From Scott Free
Productions, the pilot was directed by Atencio, and written and
created by Dave Callaham (Mortal
Kombat).
Adapted from the cult classic, I Love Dick—referred to
as “the most important book about men and women written in the
last century” (Emily Gould, The Guardian) — is set in a colorful intellectual
community in Marfa, Texas. Chris (Kathryn Hahn, Transparent) and Sylvere (Griffin
Dunne, Dallas Buyers Club) arrive in Marfa when Sylvere is offered a
fellowship to finish a book he’s been writing on the Holocaust. When they meet
Dick (Kevin Bacon, The Following), he taunts their imaginations and upends
their preconceptions about love and monogamy. An exploration of the female gaze
and how we tell stories about love and desire, I Love Dick charts the
evolution of a marriage, the awakening of an artist and the deification of a
writer named Dick.
Executive produced by Jill Soloway (Transparent), Andrea
Sperling (Transparent), and Sarah Gubbins (Ten Aker Wood), the pilot for I
Love Dick was directed by Soloway and written by Gubbins.
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